international trailer for 'Prince of Persia'

From the team that brought the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy to the big screen, Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry BruckheimerFilms present Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, an epic action-adventure set in the mystical lands of Persia. The Film was shot on location in Morocco and Pinewood Studios London. It is based on the well known videogame created by Jordan Mechner who previously considered producing an animated film based on the games, but could not resist Disney and Bruckheimer's offer. Finally, after a couple of reshoots in London two official trailer were released by the Walt Disney Company. One seems to be for international use showing much more footage than the other released previously. The film is scheduled to be released on March 28th 2010

trailer 1, trailer 2

Outer Transport

Outer Transport is a new blog by Nicholas Bouvier, exclusively dedicated to his 'space related images'. Nicholas Bouvier, also known as 'Sparth' is a senior concept artist for the game industry and his work recently got published in a book called Structura. For an extended biography and for a massive gallery of Nicolas' works please visit the artist website, Sparth.com, sparthconstruct.blogspot.com or outertransport.blogspot.com

an interview with 'Darkwolf's fantasy reviews' is posted here

The Art of Sherlock Holmes

Accomplished visual development artist John Watkiss will be exhibiting original storyboards and concept paintings from the new highly anticipated film, "Sherlock Holmes" with actor Robert Downey Jr.

Watkiss is also known for his designwork and storyboarding on TARZAN, ATLANTIS, FANTASIA and SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW. He has published several books on anatomy and drawing technique which can be purchased on his website.

www.gallerynucleus.com

The Lighthouse Keeper

The Lighthouse Keeper is one of the student films produced this year at the Gobelins School of Animation in Paris. It shows excellent animation and design throughout the picture. Some conceptual work, cg-models and animation-tests are posted on the blogs of the team members here, here and here. Watch the film here.

James Gurney is an artist known for his plen-air landscape paintings, as well as his award-winning illustrations of fantasy and historical subjects. He is also known as the author and illustrator of the best-selling illustrated book series, Dinotopia. On his blog, Gurney Journey , is an introduction to his technique and the way he achieves his "Imaginative Realism".

Phillippe Faraut

Philippe Faraut is a figurative artist specializing in life-size portrait sculptures and monumental stone sculptures. His media of choice are water-based clay and marble.

From his extensive research of the human face he developed a technique of modeling the portrait that he shares with his sculpting students during his numerous sculpting classes and seminars taught throughout the US. In order to assist his students, Philippe has created a set of sculpting supplies, an instructional sculpting video series and two sculpting books detailing his process for portraiture in clay. Artists in fields such as sculpture, forensic reconstruction, illustration, art education and film and theater utilize his three-dimensional masks as reference for the aging process and in-depth studies of expression.

As an award-winning stone sculptor specializing in representational art, Philippe feels that the renewed interest and willingness of artists to return to the study of the human form has the potential to bring back to our society an appreciation for traditional beauty. www.philippefaraut.com

Milt Kahl Celebration

The Academy celebration of Milt Kahl featured an insightful analysis of his animation drawings, rare film interviews with Kahl himself, and clips of his work from such Disney favorites as “Mickey’s Circus,” “Pinocchio,” “Bambi,” “Peter Pan,” “Sleeping Beauty,” “The Jungle Book” and “The Rescuers.”

The videos are online now at the official Academy website. The footage is interspersed with commentary from those who worked beside him and were inspired by him, revealing the rigorous process and fiery personality of a true animation legend. www.oscars.org

Illustrative 2009 16.10.-1.11.

Illustrative is the leading international forum for contemporary illustration and graphic arts. Established in Berlin in 2006, Illustrative has been held twice in Berlin (2006/2007), once in Paris (2007), and once in Zürich (2008).
Illustrative displays not only the quality and fantasy of the latest graphic arts but also shows how the visual effects of graphic design, illustration, book art, comics, concept art, and animation spill into and influence the field of art.
The exhibition is accompanied by the Young Illustrator Award.

Online CGWorkshops

CGWorkshops are online courses that run for eight weeks at a time and are designed by professional artists for the creative computer graphics industry. Students are drawn from all around the globe and can participate from the privacy of their own home. All you need is a web connection. Run securely over the web, CGWorkshops give everyone the opportunity to learn specific skills and be tutored by leaders in all areas of CG design. The forum environment allows direct communication and assists students and Instructors to collaborate at any time anywhere in the world.

Weekly sessions commence with a tutorial that is presented as text, video or both followed by the distribution of an assignment. Assignments assist students apply skills learned from the tutorials as well as receive guidance and coaching from the Instructor and other students in the group. View the complete list of courses available here

www.cgsociety.org

Guild Wars 2

The Art of Guild Wars 2 is a hardbound book packed with 128 pages of eye candy by award-winning artists. The vivid collection of concept art offers a long-awaited glimpse into the world of Guild Wars 2. A trailer for the game can be found on youtube.


www.guildwars2.com

CFSL Ink.

Café Salé and Ankama Editions have released another book in the popular series of the CFSL-artbooks.
The community founded in 2007 has published several books on comic, concept art and speed painting.

L’artbook CFSL.
Grenouille Noire # 0
CFSL Shuffle volume 1 Speedpainting
CFSL Ink.

www.cfsl.net

Lebbeus Woods

The work of Lebbeus Woods, currently a professor of architecture at the Cooper Union in New York City, has influenced the designs of many films including 12 Monkeys, Alien 3 or The Fifth Element. "His work is experimental architecture in its most powerful, and politically provocative, sense."(BLDGBLOG)

The majority of his explorations deal with the design of systems in crisis, visions of a possible reality, provisional, local, and charged with the investment of their creators and are best known for his proposals for San Francisco, Havana, and Sarajevo.

His website provides access to projects and writings of his own and his collaborators whereas his blog features the latest articles accompanied by extensive discussions in the comments sections.

lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com

lebbeuswoods.net

Call For Entries

And yet another community for digital artists has emerged from the abyss of the world wide web. The initial idea behind Art Squared was to produce an art book that was free to enter and provide a platform for artists to showcase their work. Now that this idea had proven itself to be successful, subsmissions were opened in regards of a second volume. www.artsquared.co.uk

Exhibition

A group of artists from a major video game developer gather to share
their personal work at Gnomon Gallery. Opening reception of "Cognosco" on Saturday, August 8th at 7:00 pm, 1015 N. Cahuenga Blvd, Hollywood Ca 90038 www.gnomongallery.com

TRON trailer?

Not quite an official movie trailer but a concept test created by the people at Digital Domain to give Director Joseph Kosinski an impression of what they are capable of. First presented at ComicCon 2008 now the trailer can be found on the Apple website.